The DSMDC is a group of Metal Detecting enthusiasts who meet monthly to share their treasure finds with fellow members and discuss some of their tips and tricks of the trade.
The meetings are held from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Members and guests may arrive as early as 6:30 p.m. This will give everyone time to socialize, so we can start on time.
Come join the fun! Visitors are always welcome. Click on the Meeting Schedule banner below for meeting location, dates and time.

Monday, November 30, 2015

No.5 – 1923 Wheat Penny

Due to how many
were produced, this coin can be worth as little as $.75 or as much as
$750. One of the reasons being is that this sought after coin has no
mint mark. It is one of the few years where the coin was produced
outside of the Philadelphia mint.

No. 4 – 1909 VDB-S Lincoln Penny

This is one of the most coveted pennies by Numismatists. The VDB-S
penny comes from when the Lincoln Penny was first minted. The VDB are
the artist’s initials who designed the Lincoln cent and the S comes from
the coin being minted in San Francisco. Only 484,000 were minted with
the artist’s initals as there was public outcry for them being removed. A
coin in good condition with the VDB-S mint mark can be worth just shy
of $3,000. Makes it worth checking your pennies to see if you have one
of these jewels hiding in your change drawer.

No. 3 – 1914-D Lincoln Wheat Penny

The 1914 minted out of Denver is considered a key date for the
Lincoln Penny collectors. With only 1.1 million of this coin minted from
the Denver Mint, this date has become a keystone to many collections as
it is one of the most valuable non-error wheat pennies. One of these
found in good condition can fetch up to $4,300! Nice down payment on a
house or car, if I do say so myself.

No. 2 – 1943 Copper Wheat Penny

The 1943 copper wheat penny is considered one of the crown jewels of
collectors. The reason being is that there are very few in existence.
Due to the copper shortage during WWII most of the copper used for
pennies was re-purposed towards the war effort. Any of the copper
pennies that were released that year were mistakes by the mint and as
such were never supposed to be in circulation to begin with. Due to
this, there are numerous fakes in collecting circulations. If you do
have one that is real, you could be sitting on a coin worth up to
$100,000! Not to shabby for old Abe’s coin.

No. 1 – 1944 Steel Wheat Penny

Coming in at Number 1 is the 1944 steel wheat penny. This penny that
was issued during WWII was to replace the copper one during the war
years. But because of the weak composition not many were made, which
made this coin extremely rare. Like the 1943 copper wheat penny, this
coin could be worth more than $100K!

Monday, November 23, 2015

That’s one of the questions GaryKillmer
hears quite often when he mentions he is a metal detectorist. He will tell them it’s a
1793 Liberty Cap Cent: The rarest U.S. penny ever made.

Other times they will ask him, “What’s the most interesting
thing you’ve found?” and he tells them an 1840’s pistol, long ago lost in the
woods.

Through the years, he has been wandering the countryside and
have found many interesting pieces of history that were lost centuries ago.
Recently, though, he found something that was lost only decades ago, and
luckily, he was able to get it back into the hands of the rightful owners.

Now it is one of his most interesting finds.

He was out detecting along a stream in Poughkeepsie NY and had
set off in no general direction through the woods near the shore. As he was
detecting, he heard a signal that was worth checking. He started retrieval of the
object and out popped a silver silhouette charm of a young girl. The name
“Kathryn” and a date were engraved on the side. He thought it was an interesting
find and had already started to wonder if he could ever find out who Kathryn
was. He then checked the hole for anything else and out came another charm, this
one was a boy silhouette engraved with “Bradley” and his birth date.

When he got home he cleaned up the charms and posted them on
several metal-detecting forums and on Facebook. He invited folks to share the
photo and story to see if we could find out who these two people are and get in
touch with them. Some days passed and he found out that his post on Facebook had
nearly a thousand shares. People love a good mystery, especially a local one.

He spent some time in the Local History section at Adriance
Memorial Library in Poughkeepsie, looking at old yearbooks, trying to find
Kathryn or Bradley, but came up with no matches. Meanwhile, on Facebook, close
to 3,100 people had shared the photo and story of the charms.

What he thought was going to be an easy mystery to solve was
becoming more difficult than he originally imagined. He turned to Google and
found a website where you can search for someone by their name and birthday. He entered Bradley’s information and was amazed to see a match in Poughkeepsie! he
was even more surprised to see that Bradley was actually his insurance agent,
Bradley Jay Carter, of Carter MGM Insurance, who goes by the name Jay.

They had a little trouble reaching each other at first, but in
the end he got a call from Jay’s wife, Kathy. He told her the interesting story
about how he had discovered the charms. A week later he stopped by Jay’s office
and presented the charms to both him and his mother Barbara. Barbara said the
charms were actually her mother’s. Kathryn was Jay’s cousin who lived out of
state. He learned that near where he found the charms, Barbara had taken Jay to
learn to swim some time before 1974. One of those times Barbara must have
brought her mother along and had lost the charms with her grandchildren’s names
on them. Unfortunately, Kathryn has since passed away, which perhaps makes the
charms more sentimental to the Carter family ,who enjoy doing genealogical
research.

The story of returning these charms to the Carter family
after being lost over four decades ago is something he won’t ever forget.Source: Poughkeepsie Journal

Central Jersey Rare Coins

Fisher Research Labs

Garrett Metal Detectors

The Gold Digger Metal Detectors

Minelab Metal Detectors

https://www.minelab.com/metal-detectors

Teknetics Metal Detectors

https://www.tekneticsdirect.com

XP Metal Detectors America

http://www.xpmetaldetectorsamericas.com

ATTENTION

The Deep Search Metal Detecting Club is asking if any landowner / homeowner with property in the state of New Jersey, might be willing to allow our organization to conduct metal detecting on their land is asked to contact DSMDC President Donna Funk